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'PLANE FOUND IN SEA. < i (Received 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. A sea plane, which was lost in the sea at noon on July 22, lias been discovered lying in 30 feet of water, two miles from Point Cook. When the 'alane was raised, there was no trace of the body of Pilot-Officer Ernest Yde. aped 20. That of his companion, Pilot-Officer Charles Houston, s aged 23, was discovered floating in a 1 partly-inflated life-saving jacket a week 11 after the tragedy. ] The wreckage showed that the 'plane ! had nosedived with terrific force, the engine being driven into the front cock- i pit, where Pilot-Officer Yde was sitting.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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